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Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The chart indicates another way to fix global warming. We could add to the atmosphere. It would take a massive amount... Maybe have boil the ocean?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

water gas is a particularly intense greenhouse gas :p

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The car runs on water, man!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Steal jupiter

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Great outside the box thinking!

I think humanity might own it....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Somebody get elmo to do some ~~research on~~ hype for this amazing investment opportunity.

[–] Doomsider 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For sure, I mean we could reduce our emissions and try to reuse and recycle. But that doesn't sound half as fun as "boil the oceans".

Also think of the seafood boil we could create. Add a little creole seasoning and we also manage to solve world hunger

[–] amon 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

just be careful not to kill off all the fish

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That won't be a problem for much longer...

https://www.pbs.org/emptyoceans/eoen/